2014 discharge: ENIAC Joint Undertaking for the implementation of the Joint Technology Initiative on nanoelectronics

PURPOSE: to grant discharge to the ENIAC Joint Undertaking for the financial year 2014.

NON-LEGISLATIVE ACT: Decision (EU) 2016/2154 of the European Parliament on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the ENIAC Joint Undertaking for the financial year 2014.

CONTENT: with this Decision, the European Parliament granted the Executive Director of the ECSEL Joint Undertaking (formerly the ENIAC Joint Undertaking and the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking) discharge in respect of the implementation of the ENIAC Joint Undertaking's budget for the financial year 2014.

This decision is in line with the European Parliament's resolution adopted on 27 October 2016 and comprises a series of observations that form an integral part of the discharge decision (please refer to the summary of the opinion of 27 October 2016).

Among Parliament’s main observations made in the resolution accompanying the discharge decision, Parliament expressed concern about the irregularities noted by the Court of Auditors regarding the administrative agreements signed with the national funding authorities regarding audit of project cost claims.

Parliament noted, however, that the ECSEL JTI has corrected most of the irregularities noted above.